Microsoft Digital Image Suite 10.0

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Summary: Some functions doesn't work well, poor quality
Review: Digital Image Pro Ver. 9 was better quality software. Version 10 made improvements on automating some tasks but made other fundamental functions work really badly: If you apply Red Eye correction, most of times when trying to increase the effect to achieve a natural eye color, the software inserts like a Black ring around the eyes!! Also, the sharpen function works pretty, pretty bad!!

I don't understand why releasing to market software with these kinds of bugs on features that are used the most? why if they were working perfectly on version 9?

I returned this very expensive ("very poor" price/performance) software to buy other program where all the editing functions work as they should!!


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Summary: Photo Story
Review: I bought this digital suite for the one thing it does exceptionally well. No fuss - no muss, this software makes beautiful slide shows with narration or music. There is very little personalization, very little choice in how the slide show plays out, but the pans and zooms are nicely done anyway.

Here's where the trick comes in -- it's advertised or somehow implied that the Photo Story can be burned onto a DVD to operate on most DVD players. Exactly what I wanted, but that doesn't seem to be the actual case. Unless I'm wrong (that DOES happen on occasion) the Photo Story only seems to burn onto video CDs. Makes for a short televised story, sadly.

So that's the caveat. It's good software, easy to operate, burns digital files to CD or DVD for archiving and does this extra lovely thing that the Adobe Album doesn't do in the Photo Story. But only three stars for the DVD failure. Five stars if it's there and I've somehow missed it.

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Summary: Microsoft Digital Image Suite 10.0
Review: I love this software,...does everything I want to do and more,... easy to learn...It does only do VCD'S, no dvd...I enjoy the VCD 'S though..you can get quit a few photo's on the cd.....Very easy to add another individual to a photo if you like....I highly recommend this software...

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Summary: Strange Crashes
Review: The program has excellent features and useability. Definitely easier to use complicated features (like inserting photo in a selected area), than Elements. But On three different computers (Dell and Medion) this program causes a re-boot when I try to save a complex edit. If I keep it to changing levels, it saves fine. But using the noise reduction (which is impressive by the way) caused a reboot when I tried to save. Same when I inserted a photo in a selection area, and then tried to save. It could be an incompatibilty with one of the other programs on the computer. But I've had this problem on three different computers - all with XP2 and all with Firefox (But I temporarily removed Firefox, and the problem persisted, so I don't it is to blame). Had the same problem with Version 9 as well. Perhaps the incompatibility is with XP2 - Don't know. It is a mystery and keeps me from giving this a 5 star rating. I called tech support - they were unable to identify a fix for the problem - so I'm returning the software.

When I used version 9 (before XP2) it worked fine, and I liked the software a lot. It's browser-organizer is faster than the one in Elements and Photo Album. But it's not much good if the software has problems working properly under XP2.